Follow Me

So I have been wrecked as of lately. Just reading through the gospel of Luke and hearing the actual words of Jesus. How intense they are. Words people can sometimes and a lot of the time ignore or get offended by. Words we take lightly, myself included. Some where in our church history we have tamed down the words of Jesus, and yet we call our selves followers of Jesus. Jesus says there are two paths we can follow, one is easy and wide and the other is narrow and hard. One leads to destruction and the other leads to life. But how many of us are actually on the narrow path that Jesus calls us too. If we actually get deep down to it and are honest with ourselves, are we really on that narrow path, being obedient to what Jesus tells us?

A lot of us say we are following Jesus, but ask yourself this question. If I wasn't a Christian, would my life look any different. I don't just mean reading the bible and praying, but the way we live our lives. How about right now as you call yourself a follower of Jesus, would people who don't know Jesus look at your life and say you are different? Would they see a light in you? Have we ever stopped and realized what Jesus says? He says we can't have both the wide and easy path and the narrow and hard path. We can't hang on to our sin and then have a little Jesus over here. He says, "Any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:33. He says in Luke 17:33, "Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it." He says the narrow path is hard but it leads to life. Yet we keep going on to our sin and spitting in the face of Jesus. We keep going back to materialistic things and letting those things be our treasure, rather that God and his glory being our treasure. How disgusting is this. And before I go on I don't want to sound like I'm judging, but I'm in the same boat and I'm coming to the point where I can't just sit back and continue to want Jesus and my old life. It's time to stand up into who God is calling me to be and all of us to stand who God has called us to be.

Jesus tells us not to be luke warm, and that he would rather us be either hot or cold. That he is ready to spit us out of his mouth if we are living in luke warm Christianity. He says this in Revelation 3:14-22. But he says this because He loves us. He says in that same passage that "I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent." See he rebukes us and tells us of the down right ugly things in our lives, yet He tells us these things because He loves us and wouldn't want anyone of us to be thrown into Hell for eternity. It may seem like this is harsh language, but this is the Jesus of the bible. But you must see that He loves you! He says the narrow path is hard, but it leads to life. He is offering life because the things on the wide and easy path of the world will only lead to destruction. And Jesus wants us to be with Him in His glory.

Lets stop this nonsense and follow Him, truly! Because it really is the only way to life. He is the God who created us and could crush us at any moment, yet He offered us a way out by giving His Son! Lets stop spitting in His face coming up with excuses of why we can hold on to our sin or what we want, and take the free gift that He offers and give our lives to Him! I'm going for this thing. The Lord has so much he wants to give us. So many good plans for our lives. He is the only thing I want to live for because he leads to life, and everything else leads to destruction.